The tourism industry is essential to many countries and areas in order to bring in profit from tourists to support the economy. To ensure that attractions thrive, it’s important that tourism professionals in every capacity are motivated, knowledgeable, and supportive of the product that they are trying to push.
These skills require tourism professionals to engage in their role and make a conscious effort to stay on trend with customers’ needs and desires. This requires the ability to research, conduct regular training and work together as a team to share best practice.
Customer focus is a massive part of hospitality and tourism professionals also need to consider the customer journey and experience in everything they do to work towards continuous improvement. This may involve asking for feedback, developing new processes and procedures, and considering risks to the business and tourist industry in the area as a whole. Working towards a better service requires thorough road mapping, consideration of feedback, and continuous training to provide the best service and keep tourists coming back time after time.
It’s not all about the tourists though. Managing a tourism company or a team of employees means that you need to work closely with partners and stakeholders to ensure you maintain a great location for your offering and are meeting the expectations of those that you partner with.
This course is designed for anyone working within the tourism industry who is responsible to manage a team of tourism professionals in order to sell an experience or product. It would be most beneficial for:
This course uses a variety of adult learning methods to aid full comprehension and understanding. Participants will experience the inner workings of hospitality and tourism management through videos and interactive presentations which discuss what good service is.
Group discussions and practical exercises will help teams to review their current offering and make changes based on customer journey mapping and each participant will develop their communication skills through role-play, where they will accept feedback and agree to changes based on problems raised.